Nuclear Industry: Pay No Attention to the Potential Meltdown Behind the Curtain

[kpete]

Nuclear Industry: Pay No Attention to the Potential Meltdown Behind the Curtain
By: David Dayen Monday March 14, 2011 9:10 am

.........The nuclear industry’s spin.

The most striking claim made by NEI spokesman Mitchell Singer: Americans should be “reassured” by the crisis unfolding in Japan.

“There hasn’t been any significant release of radiation. So obviously they must be doing something right at this point,” said Singer. While acknowledging that the crisis is still in early stages, Singer argued in our interview, and earlier to the Wall Street Journal, that Americans should be reassured because the industry will learn from the accidents in Japan, where fail-safe systems have themselves failed.

“We share what’s known as ‘lessons learned’ from incidents such as this,” he said.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/13/nuclear_industry_response/index.html

Well, that’s reassuring.

the rest:
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/03/14/nuclear-industry-pay-no-attention-to-the-potential-meltdown-behind-the-curtain/



Martian Translator Device: Don't run! We are your friends!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116996/quotes

[joeybee12]

1. Yeah, and gulf seafood is now ready to eat!

Yup, lie and lie and lie...nothing else the energy industry does better.

[malaise]

2. Ed Markey is on Tweety

He isn't spinning for anyone

[RandomThoughts]

3. Whats really interesting is function not data.

It is the exact same metaphor as the oil well story.

Look at the pattern. Some 'data' item has a disaster. Then there is talk for weeks about 'containing it'

function not data. Could also be about how some try to keep secrets.

:shrug:

I am due beer and travel money and many experiences.


Side note the reversal is also in it, to try and make the metaphor backwards. In both the oil and nuclear case it is better to contain, and by that it tries to reverse the secrecy metaphor.

Or the thing that destroys, supports secrecy. As said many times.

[kpete]

4. wash,

rinse,
repeat

[RandomThoughts]

6. I notice the repitition in that.

Do you notice where the metaphor is backwards.

It is like trying to set a label. By attaching some concept to some other concept backwards.

:shrug:



On a personal note, I was once again insulted yesterday, although it gave some insight into how they think, there are some people that actually think I am in some way bad. LOL. Although they showed how they think yesterday, so more gain then loss on another smear that was used recently.

I beginning to think someone thinks I am bad, or maybe they think they they are superior, both being wrong.

But anyways I like this song.

Simon & Garfunkel - Slip Sliding Away (Final Fantazy)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8nec2_simon-garfunkel-slip-sliding-away-f_music


The best line in this song, or deepest line.

And I know a father who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done
He came a long way just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and he headed home again

There really are reasons for all that spiritual stuff, and in most cases people don't need to know. In the same way I don't think the exact side of the spiritual should be proven.

But that line is lack of selfishness, in the father, instead of disturbing the son's sleep, he shares love and does not explain. That is not needing to know. How those doing better don't need to know. But when people use things against what they should be, or to hurt many people, it is not his son he is waking up, but those hurting his son in many people. It is a sad thing, I choose to wake up, because I saw the sleeping being attacked for the gain of a few people. Something I would not do, nor think things should be like. And I have explained that a few times, that is the problem I saw years ago, and have been trying to show.

You don't have to understand, but some think they do, and follow bad stuff. The truth in seeing, is knowing nobody can be sure. Or that nobody actually sees, so think and feel about what some tell you they know is correct.

There is some good stuff that helps many people also, so while trying to show how some bad is causing problems, best to show the abundance of good helping people also. One of the reasons for many of the music posts.

And I am due beer and travel money and many experiences.

[truedelphi]

5. Among the many assurances rolled out by our nuke "experts:"

"It can't happen here. We are America, the greatest country in the world, and they are, after all, only Japan."

"The Japanese built this plant inside a known earthquake and tsunami region. We don't do that here." (Never mind that the plants in Southern Illinois could be affected by the New Madrid fault, which offered up a paralyzing and devastating earthquake, circa early 1800's. We don't think of it much as the area was wilderness back then, so no massive life or property losses.)

And constant chit chat from the industry experts that reveals that Three Mile Island was hardly worth considering. Never mind the billions of dollars that it cost the people in that region. Or the fact that there were several explosions inside the plant - had the company that built that plant fudged even a tiny bit on the construction materials (fudging on materials is a common nuke plant) we would have had a meltdown.